Today it's cold. Last night it has been storming, and today it's not all that much better. I guess it's nice Halloween weather, whether we celebrate that here or not. It's also storming a bit in my head, as I look for ways to finish projects and wrap up my …

Heading out of the main entrance of my university last Friday the 13th, picking my way through a crowd assembled there, I wondered why they where all craning their necks. Also, the police officers and some officials obviously waiting for somebody made me ask who was being awaited. "Maxima!" was …

OK, after finding me a tray icon plugin for the Linux version of Thunderbird, I came to the conclusion that the default icon Debian is shipping with it [the non-branded Mozilla icon], is just ugly. It's a aliased icon [read: jagged edges etc], brown, and doesn't play nice with my …

I just got myself a new laptop^Wbattery. The previous battery of my two year old Acer was down to about an hour of usage on a charge when it suddenly went over to another dimension and refused to provide my trusty workhorse with juice. I ordered a replacement battery …

It's the day against DRM today. Say no to those crippling techniques too. Say yes to being able to use your purchases on the devices you like to use it on, and not the one[s] where the companies want you to play it on. Say yes to Freedom!

Full Frontal Nerdity has a nice comic about "A few things in entertainment we'd like to see made into felonies for committing to film", mostly regarding the use of "science", applied by people who don't have a clue: